Dame Deborah James has raised £ 6.5 million for her cancer fundraiser since she announced the start of her end-of-life care.
The 40-year-old BBC podcaster has been living with stage four bowel cancer since December 2016, but as her health changed in early May, she launched the Bowel Babe fund to continue her legacy.
In the three weeks since she first shared her fundraiser with JustGiving, she has surpassed her £ 250,000 target for Cancer Research UK to reach over £ 6,570,000 on Saturday 28 May with over 302,000 followers.
This week he launched a collection with InTheStyle to raise money for the bowelbabe fund, which has reached more than £ 6.5 million since he announced he would receive end-of-life care at his parents’ home in Woking.
The collection with InTheStyle is available for booking until 8am on Monday, with 100% of the proceeds going to Bowel Babe for Cancer Research UK.
Dame Deborah James has raised £ 6.5 million for her cancer fundraiser since she announced the start of her end-of-life care.
Deborah has been living with stage four bowel cancer since she was diagnosed in December 2016 and said designing the collection gave her something to focus on apart from her illness.
“From now until I die, I wear a different dress every day. It sounds a little weird and morbid, but I’m really enjoying it,” she said.
In her photos with Prince William when she visited him, she wore an InTheStyle issue of her collection, before announcing its release.
In a video announcing the news on her Instagram, Dame Deborah answered questions about the collection.
Revealing the design process for his collection, he said he was living a “hybrid” life at the time and working between home and hospital.
But she said, “We got it, we got it. I was enjoying it. It gave me life, it gave me something else to think about.
The 40-year-old BBC podcaster has been living with stage four bowel cancer since December 2016, but as her health changed in early May, she launched the Bowel Babe fund to continue her legacy.
This week she has launched a collection with InTheStyle (pictured with one of the dresses in the range), to raise money for the bowelbabe fund, which has reached more than £ 6.5 million since she announced she would receive attention at the end of his life. parents’ house in Woking
On May 9, when Deborah first shared the BowelBabe fundraiser, the 40-year-old wrote in an Instagram post: “The message I never wanted to write. We’ve tried everything, but my body just doesn’t plays the ball.
“My active care has stopped and I am now moving from hospice to home care, with my amazing family around me and the goal is to make sure I have no pain and spend time with them.
‘No one knows how much time I have left, but I can’t walk, I sleep most days and most of the things I took for granted are dreams. I know we haven’t left a stone unturned.
In the three weeks since she first shared her fundraiser with JustGiving, she has surpassed her £ 250,000 target for Cancer Research UK to reach over £ 6,570,000 on Saturday 28 May with over 302,000 followers.
“But even with all the innovative cancer drugs in the world or some new magical breakthrough, my body can’t go on anymore.”
The former deputy director turned London cancer activist was once told that he may not have lived for more than five years, a milestone that happened in the fall of 2021.
Earlier this year, the mother of two, who shares her children Hugo, 14, and Eloise, 12, with her husband Sebastien, announced that she had “almost died” in hospital. calling it the “toughest” part of her 5-year battle with cancer and she was admitted as a patient earlier this month.
She is now receiving end-of-life bowel cancer at her parents’ home in Woking and told The Sun she was “afraid to fall asleep” because she doesn’t know how much time she has left.
He added that he had felt a “deep love” on the part of his family, saying: “I think my family is shattered, everyone has been amazing, going beyond to take care of me and take care of me.”
At this week’s Chelsea Flower Show, a rose was named after her, and last week she released her book, How To Live When You Could Be Dead, which topped the Amazon charts after sharing it. on his Instagram page, where he has over 888,000. followers.